140 HETEROCERA. 
ochreous mottling near the base of the costa, and on either side of the base of the fold; a very pale 
whitish ochreous oblique streak, from the middle of the costa, nearly meets at its apex an oblique, 
slender, silvery line, leaving the costa a little beyond it, and some silvery scales precede the termen below 
the apex; the apex is somewhat caudate, the cilia above and below it pale whitish ochreous, a fawn- 
brown line running through them at right angles to a projecting point, which seems to take its origin 
from a brown apical spot, the outline of the wing being also marked by a slender dark brown marginal 
line ; the dorsal and terminal portions of the wing are somewhat paler than the central, costal, and discal 
areas ; cilia below the subapical incision pale fawn-brownish. xp. al. 16mm. Hindwings and cilia 
brownish cinereous. Abdomen and Legs brownish cinereous, with three dark tarsal spots above. 
Lype Q (65946) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. 
Hab, Guatemaua: Cerro Zunil, 4000-5000 ft., VIII-IX. 1880 (G. C. Champion). 
Unique. 
[In addition to the species above described the following should be referred to 
this genus :— 
Necedes superatella Wkr. Gelechia superatella Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. 29 622-3 sp. 290 (1864) '. 
syn. = Oecophora ? ambigua F & R. Reise Nov. Zool. Lp. 2 Pf. 188° 4 (1875) *. 
Hab. South America—Brazit: amazons: Ega (H. W. Bates)’~’. 
Necedes propriella Wkr. Gelechia propriella Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. 29 622 sp. 289 (1864).*. 
Hab, South America—Brazin: amazons: Ega (H.W. Bates) *.—Drnt. | 
ECTAGA, gen. n. 
(exray# = regulation.) 
Type: Ectaga promeces Wlsm. 
Antennae %; basal joint without pecten. Labial Palpi long, curved, divergent ; median joint widened with 
scales towards apex, smooth in front, loosely clothed above and at apex; terminal joint less than half 
median, slender, acute. Muaillary Palpi short, converging. Haustellum scaled at base. Ocelli absent. 
Head smooth, with longer hair-scales at sides. Thorax smooth. Forewings elongate, costa somewhat 
arched before middle, apex rounded, termen very obliquely rounded, surface with tufts of raised scales: 
neuraiion 12 veins; 7-8 stalked, to costa; rest separate, 2 from near end of cell, 2, 3, 4, equidistant, 
similarly curved; 5 somewhat approximate to 4 toward base, thence almost parallel with 6 ; 1 furcate 
at base. Hindwings 1, apex rounded, termen not sinuate, limbus developed: neuration 8 veins ; 
6-7 separate, parallel; 3-4 connate; 5 cubital, but arising nearer to 6 than to 4, somewhat bowed-up 
toward 6 beyond base. Abdomen slender. Leys: hind tibiae with long hairs above, 
This genus differs from Schiffermiilleria Hb. (=Epicallima Dyar) in the form of 
the palpi and in the presence of tufts of raised scales on the forewings. The specics 
were probably collected in the pine forests. 
1. Ectaga promeces, sp. n. 
Antennae cinereous, banded with umber-brown above. Palpi pale fawn-brownish, the median joint’ with 
three wavy, transverse, pale brownish fuscous bands externally. Head and Thorax fawn-brown, mixed 
with brownish fuscous. orewings fawn-brown, mixed with brownish fuscous and some brownish 
cinereous scaling; an elongate patch of raised brownish fuscous scales lies immediately below the 
middle of the fold; a series of four small discal spots, also consisting of raised brownish fuscous scales, 
being distributed alternately along the upper and lower margins of the cell, the first and third in the 
upper series, the second and fourth in the lower, the latter about the lower angle of the cell; cilia 
sprinkled with the same three shades of colour as the Wwing-surface, but with a somewhat greyer 
